Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans

by Unknown

CONTENTS

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Preface	The Editor	[iii]
The City	Lewis Mumford	[3]
Politics	H. L. Mencken	[21]
Journalism	John Macy	[35]
The Law	Zechariah Chafee, Jr.	[53]
Education	Robert Morss Lovett	[77]
Scholarship and Criticism	J. E. Spingarn	[93]
School and College Life	Clarence Britten	[109]
The Intellectual Life	Harold E. Stearns	[135]
Science	Robert H. Lowie	[151]
Philosophy	Harold Chapman Brown	[163]
The Literary Life	Van Wyck Brooks	[179]
Music	Deems Taylor	[199]
Poetry	Conrad Aiken	[215]
Art	Walter Pach	[227]
The Theatre	George Jean Nathan	[243]
Economic Opinion	Walter H. Hamilton	[255]
Radicalism	George Soule	[271]
The Small Town	Louis Raymond Reid	[285]
History	H. W. Van Loon	[297]
Sex	Elsie Clews Parsons	[309]
The Family	Katharine Anthony	[319]
The Alien	Frederic C. Howe	[337]
Racial Minorities	Geroid Tanquary Robinson	[351]
Advertising	J. Thorne Smith	[381]
Business	Garet Garrett	[397]
Engineering	O. S. Beyer, Jr.	[417]
Nerves	Alfred B. Kuttner	[427]
Medicine	Anonymous	[443]
Sport and Play	Ring W. Lardner	[457]
Humour	Frank M. Colby	[463]
American Civilization from the Foreign Point of View
I As an Englishman Sees It	Henry L. Stuart	[469]
II As an Irishman Sees It	Ernest Boyd	[489]
III As an Italian Sees It	Raffaello Piccoli	[508]
Bibliographical Notes		[527]
Who’s Who of the Contributors		[557]
Index		[565]